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New *Damaged Earth Catalog* entry: 
Redundant Technology 🛠️ going way back to 1997:
https://damaged.bleu255.com/Redundant_Technology/
Lots of thanks to @jameswallbank for insights into the motivations and strategies at the heart of the Redundant Technology Initiative ❤️ #permacomputing #lowtech #SmallWeb #sustainability #tech
+1 reason why you must stop using Chrome and, if possible, Chromium browsers
(Upd: link to a post in Fediverse with tech details https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/112757810519145581)
(Upd 2: MS Edge seems to have this issue; #Vivaldi also has it but it can be disabled; Ungoogled Chromium doesn't have it at all)
#Privacy #Tech #Technology #Browser #Chrome #Chromium #Firefox #Google #BigTech
It turns out Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on `*.google.com` access to private APIs, including your current CPU usageYou can test it out by pasting the following into your Chrome DevTools console on any Google page:
chrome.runtime.sendMessage(
"nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome",
{ method: "cpu.getInfo" },
(response) => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(response, null, 2));
},
);More notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/
hangout_services/thunk.js
It turns out Google Chrome (via Chromium) includes a default extension which makes extra services available to code running on the `*.google.com` domains - tweeted about today [by Luca Casonato](https://twitter.simonwillison.net
We think this can shake up social media 🕺
Our new Amplifier lets you curate your timeline as you scroll with the flick of a switch and personalise your social web.
By simplifying your feed, you can catch up on conversations that matter to you. Just turn on the Amplifier in your Newsmast settings!
Now on the Newsmast app, update or download on the App & Play Stores then login with your Mastodon account.
#fediverse #fedidev #tech #fediadmin #mastodon
The worst kind of tech hype is when something is portrayed as inevitable and unstoppable, with criticism or doubt blithely dismissed as "they don't get it".
Just because a giant tech company pours vast amounts of money down a toilet, that doesn't mean the toilet is going to start spewing gold coins into the air.
#Hype #Tech #TechBros #Journalism #TechNews
“When I say ‘I am hungry’, I am reporting on my sensed physiological states. When an LLM generates the sequence ‘I am hungry’, it is simply generating the most probable completion of the sequence of words in its current prompt.”
https://time.com/collection/time100-voices/6980134/ai-llm-not-sentient/
No, Today’s AI Isn’t Sentient. Here’s How We Know
It is important to understand the profound difference between how humans generate sequences of words and how a large language model does.Time
African AI workers, mostly from Kenya, released an open letter to Joe Biden this week asking him stop US tech companies from “systemically abusing and exploiting African workers” and to end the “modern day slavery” they’re subjected to.
https://www.wired.com/story/low-paid-humans-ai-biden-modern-day-slavery/
A new @DestinationLinux has hit the road! (370) 😎🐧▶️ https://tuxdigital.com/dl370
Check out #DestinationLinux 370: Interview with GloriousEggroll about Proton-GE, Nobara, and more
#linux #podcasts #opensource #tech
370: Interview with GloriousEggroll about Proton-GE, Nobara, and more - Destination Linux - TuxDigital
Download as MP3 Sponsored by LINBIT: Visit destinationlinux.net/linbit to learn how LINBIT’s OSS, based on DRBD® and LINSTOR®, can be used for Kubernetes...TuxDigital
Apple's new iPad ad hasn't gone down well with creatives, according to @AxiosNews. The commercial showed a massive hydraulic press crushing musical instruments, arcade games, cameras and paint cans, and reopening to reveal just an iPad. "I'm definitely the target audience for the new iPad Pro but this ad is tone-deaf and insulting to artists of every kind," wrote cartoonist James Kochalka on X. "We think of our tools with reverence and respect, and enjoy a healthy dialogue with them. Our tools are like trusted companions on the journey of art." Here's more.
You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000
Thermonator, the first "flamethrower-wielding robot dog," is completely legal in 48 US states.Ars Technica
I’ll be speaking at #AMRO24 in Linz, Austria on May 8! Come along to hear me talk about how the tech industry is much more overtly embracing government and military to protect itself.
More info here: https://art-meets.radical-openness.org/2024/program/libertarians-no-more-how-tech-is-embracing-the-state-to-amplify-its-power/
A new @ThisWeekinLinux has dropped! (257) 😎🐧▶️ https://tuxdigital.com/twil257
@MichaelTunnell talks about GNOME 46, Linux 6.8, KDE Security Warning, Fedora 40 Beta & more Linux news on Your Source for #Linux GNews!
#podcasts #technews #opensource #tech
257: GNOME 46, Linux 6.8, KDE Security Warning, Fedora 40 Beta & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital
On this episode of TWIL, we've got a brand new kernel to talk about with Linux 6.8. GNOME 46 has been released bringing a ton of desktop related goodies...TuxDigital
hi I’m Ginny! #introduction
I spent my first decades as a generic white boy in tech, then a year ago I signed up for my first mastodon account and discovered I am a girl!
I post about tech, trans life, post selfies, and openly talk about mental illness and pain (cw'ed)
I’m a single parent w/ a 9 yo daughter, working as a software engineer in Seattle. I also write fiction (ya and speculative) and am generally very dorky.
btw you can be a girl if you want to be, inquire within!
A new @DestinationLinux has hit the road! (360) 😎🐧▶️ https://tuxdigital.com/dl360
Check out #DestinationLinux 360: Oh Snap! Command Not Found vulnerability found
#linux #podcasts #opensource #tech
360: Oh Snap! Command Not Found vulnerability found - Destination Linux - TuxDigital
Download as MP3 Sponsored by Kolide: If a device isn't secure, it can't access your apps. It's device trust for Okta. Visit https://destinatio...TuxDigital
Latest comic: Using the First Amendment to end the First Amendment
#fascism #authoritarianism #media #journalism #tech #socialmedia #firstamendment
Game time, we're planning to use #VNyan on #Linux while playing #Palworld over on both #Twitch and #YouTube !!!
#Vtuber #ENVtuber #Tech #Gaming
https://www.youtube.com/live/NlojkNrvf4c?si=n3VM6NPipce8XAsa
Testing Vnyan in Palworld! #Linux #Palworld #Vtuber #Vnyan
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NEW: WhatsApp will soon make it possible to chat with people who use other messaging apps. It's revealed some more details on how that will work.
— Apps will need to sign an agreement with Meta, then connect to its servers.
— Meta wants people to use the Signal Protocol, but also says other encryption protocols can be used if they can meet WhatsApp's standards
— WhatsApp has been testing with Matrix in recent months, although nothing is agreed yet. Swiss app Threema says it won't become interoperable
https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-interoperability-messaging/ #tech #whatsapp #dma #infosec #news #technology
WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps
New EU rules mean WhatsApp and Messenger must be interoperable with other chat apps. Here’s how that will work.Matt Burgess (WIRED)
A new @ThisWeekinLinux has dropped! (251) 😎🐧▶️ https://tuxdigital.com/twil251
@MichaelTunnell talks about Budgie Desktop, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Flathub, openSUSE, Purism & more Linux news on Your Source for #Linux GNews!
#podcasts #technews #opensource #tech
251: Budgie Desktop, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Flathub, openSUSE, Purism & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital
On this episode of TWIL, the Buddies of Budgie have released a new version of the Budgie Desktop, Ubuntu has announced some ambitious goals for the next rele...TuxDigital
A new @ThisWeekinLinux has dropped! (250) 😎🐧▶️ https://tuxdigital.com/twil250
@MichaelTunnell talks about Gentoo Linux, Firefox 122, Parrot OS, Valve Proton & more Linux news on Your Source for #Linux GNews!
#podcasts #technews #opensource #tech
250: Gentoo Linux, Firefox 122, Parrot OS, Valve Proton & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital
On this episode of TWIL (250), Gentoo Linux has some made some major changes to their distro. Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox including DEB pac...TuxDigital
Latest comic: The AI Journalism Awards
#comic #cartoon #cartoons #technology #AI #journalism #news #media #tech
A new @ThisWeekinLinux has dropped! (249) 😎🐧▶️ https://tuxdigital.com/twil249
@MichaelTunnell talks about Linux Mint, Wine, COSMIC, PulseAudio, OpenSUSE, KDE & more Linux news on Your Source for #Linux GNews!
#podcasts #technews #opensource #tech
249: Linux Mint, Wine, COSMIC, PulseAudio, OpenSUSE, KDE & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital
On this episode of TWIL (249), Linux Mint has released a new version of their distro. KDE & GNOME have announced updates to the next version of their des...TuxDigital
A new @DestinationLinux has hit the road! (352) 😎🐧▶️ https://tuxdigital.com/dl352
Check out #DestinationLinux 352: Interview with Randy Packer of DreamWorks, Open Sourcing MoonRay
#linux #podcasts #opensource #tech
352: Interview with Randy Packer of DreamWorks, Open Sourcing MoonRay - Destination Linux - TuxDigital
On this episode of Destination Linux (352), we have another awesome interview lined up for you. Michael sits down with Randy Packer, from DreamWorks, to talk...TuxDigital
A new @DestinationLinux has hit the road! (351) 😎🐧▶️ https://tuxdigital.com/dl351
Check out #DestinationLinux 351: Interview with Till Kamppeter & Michael Sweet of OpenPrinting, Making Linux Printing Just Work
#linux #podcasts #opensource #tech
351: Interview with Till Kamppeter & Michael Sweet of OpenPrinting, Making Linux Printing Just Work - Destination Linux - TuxDigital
On this episode of Destination Linux (351), we have an awesome interview lined up for you. We are being joined by 2 members of the OpenPrinting project to ta...TuxDigital
A new @ThisWeekinLinux has dropped! (246) 😎🐧▶️ https://tuxdigital.com/twil246
@MichaelTunnell talks about Linux Mint, Debian, Security Flaws, Linux Blue Screen of Death, Nextcloud & more Linux news on Your Source for #Linux GNews!
#podcasts #technews #opensource #tech
246: Linux Mint, Debian, Security Flaws, Linux Blue Screen of Death, Nextcloud & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital
On this episode of TWIL (246), we've got new releases from Linux Mint, systemd, Debian and more. We've also got some new security stories to talk a...TuxDigital
There's something about Bethesda's (nowadays flawed) approach to an RPG that keeps pulling me back to #Starfield time and again. Especially on the OLED Deck 
, even though I spend most of my time playing through GeForce Now. 👀
#Steam #SteamDeck #OLED #SteamDeckOLED #Bethesda #Fallout #Skyrim #Geforce #Nvidia #GeforceNow #GFN #PC #Gaming #Handheld #Tech
"In a completely unrelated note, Spotify is shutting down in Uruguay after the country passed a bill that requires fair pay to artists, as reported by MixMag. The company made threats to shut down when the bill was first suggested back in July and now it has followed through. A spokesperson for Spotify actually wrote Uruguay's Minister of Education, Pablo Da Silveira, to say that the country’s bill would force it to “pay twice” the amount of royalties to artists." "
#Tech #Music #Corporations #Spotify #Capitalism
Spotify confirms it won't offer payouts for songs with fewer than 1,000 plays
Spotify has officially unveiled its new streaming payment policies for artists and labels and the details haven’t changed from previous reports. Payments...Lawrence Bonk (Engadget)
I'm genuinely surprised at how XeSS appears to be shaping up to become the better upscaling choice in more and more games at lower resolutions, such as the Steam Deck's 800p.
#SteamDeck #Intel #PCGaming #Tech #Ghostrunner2
A new @ThisWeekinLinux has dropped! (239) 😎🐧▶️ https://tuxdigital.com/twil239
@MichaelTunnell talks about Plasma 6, Raspberry Pi 5, Ubuntu Summit 2023, /e/OS, Lutris & more Linux news on Your Source for #Linux GNews!
#podcasts #technews #opensource #tech
239: Plasma 6, Raspberry Pi 5, Ubuntu Summit 2023, /e/OS, Lutris & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital
On this episode of TWIL (239), the KDE community has announced the expected release date for Plasma 6. Raspberry Pi's are starting to hit the roads. The...TuxDigital
A new @DestinationLinux has hit the road! (345) 😎🐧▶️ https://tuxdigital.com/dl345
Check out #DestinationLinux 345: Is Windows Switching to Linux? plus Nvidia’s ARM CPU to Rival Intel and AMD
#linux #podcasts #opensource #tech
345: Is Windows Switching to Linux? plus Nvidia's ARM CPU to Rival Intel and AMD - Destination Linux - TuxDigital
On this episode of Destination Linux (345), we’re going to discuss the next generation of Windows and it might even be Linux based? Then we’re going to d...TuxDigital
OFC, one does always buy into an #Ecosystem...
I think #Canonical should not #hamfist #Snap too hard and instead work towards a safe alliance to enshure portability of #Linux applications across Distros to replace the #RedHat dominance and avoid a #Duopoly if not #Tripoly for their own sake.
Which reminds me that @EU_Commission not calling out #RHEL and #Autodesk as #Market #Gatekeepers shows that those decisionmakers know shit about #tech.
A new @ThisWeekinLinux has dropped! (238) 😎🐧▶️ https://tuxdigital.com/twil238
@MichaelTunnell talks about Ubuntu Flavours, New Security Bug, GNOME’s New Director & more Linux news on Your Source for #Linux GNews!
#podcasts #technews #opensource #tech
238: Ubuntu Flavours, New Security Bug, GNOME's New Director & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital
Welcome to This Week in Linux, episode 238. This episode is quite flavorful because we'll talk about whats new with all the various flavors of Ubuntu 23...TuxDigital
A new @DestinationLinux has hit the road! (344) 😎🐧▶️ https://tuxdigital.com/dl344
Check out #DestinationLinux 344: Ubuntu 23.10 Review, Did Canonical Get Their Groove Back?
#linux #podcasts #opensource #tech
344: Ubuntu 23.10 Review, Did Canonical Get Their Groove Back? - Destination Linux - TuxDigital
On this episode of Destination Linux (344), we're reviewing the latest release of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 23.10 or Mantic Minotaur, we'll discuss its improv...TuxDigital
A new @ThisWeekinLinux has dropped! (237) 😎🐧▶️ https://tuxdigital.com/twil237
@MichaelTunnell talks about Ubuntu 23.10, System76, Microsoft’s Linux Tutorial, GNOME Removing Xorg & more Linux news on Your Source for #Linux GNews!
#podcasts #technews #opensource #tech
237: Ubuntu 23.10, System76, Microsoft's Linux Tutorial, GNOME Removing Xorg & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital
In this episode of This Week in Linux (237), Ubuntu is making waves with the release of Ubuntu 23.10, System76 announced a new version of their Thelio to the...TuxDigital
A new @ThisWeekinLinux has dropped! (236) 😎🐧▶️ https://tuxdigital.com/twil236
@MichaelTunnell talks about elementary OS, Snap Store Malware, Security Flaw, Linux Mint & more Linux news on Your Source for #Linux GNews!
#podcasts #technews #opensource #tech
236: elementary OS, Snap Store Malware, Security Flaw, Linux Mint & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital
In this episode of This Week in Linux (236), elementary OS 7.1 is out this week with some colorful changes, Linux Mint has made it to the EDGE, Canonical is ...TuxDigital
